news feeds jan 22

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Celebrate good Obama, Come On! The president and vice were sworn in for their second term yesterday. Obama kicked offed the party with a speech (if your interested in the actual politics part you can check that HERE) where he soaked in the crowd once said speech was delivered saying "I want to take a look one more time. I'm not going to see this again." Musical performances by Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley and Jennifer Hudson followed as the first couple danced up a storm. There was some kind of parade. Vice President Joe Biden was periodically jogging along the route accompanied by his wife Jill with sporatic oxygen tank breaks. 

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People in Spain have become significantly cooler in this guys books. A 'square' (assuming it's town not Rice Krispie) is being named after late Clash frontman Joe Strummer. A petition was proposed to city officials and city hall spokeswoman, Maria Jose Anguita confirmed this and released the following statement: "A square has been identified and now the proposal has to be approved by the committee of honours and distinctions. There was a popular petition for this to happen and the city hall accepted it." The square is located in Grenada, mentioned in the track "Spanish Bombs" from the band's "London Calling" album. 

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Be prepared for another biopic. At least it isn't a reboot of a comic book franchise. The Beach Boys, more specifically Brian Wilson, are about to hit the silver screen. Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood, Ruby Sparks, Looper) is slated to portray the early years of Wilson. The film, titled "Love & Mercy" follows the Beach Boys early years, Wilson's relationship with his wife and his subsequent struggle with mental illness. The film covers several decades of his life and will see Dano play the early years while the role of his older years is still unchaste. BIll Pohland will be directing the film, whose previous credits include producing "The Tree Of Life" and "Into the Wild."

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Despite having past away almost thirty years ago I still thought I'd throw out some props to the King of Class, Cary Grant, who would be 109 on January 18 and definitely wouldn't have had a hair out of place if he was still alive. He was born Archibald Alexander Leach on Bristol, England and started off in show biz as a stilt walker in the "Bob Pender Stage Troupe." The troupe toured the US on the RMS Olympic for two years, and when the troupe headed back the UK, Grant stayed behind. He performed at the Muny Theatre in St. Louis before moving to Hollywood in 1931. A master of comedy and drama, he appeared in over 70 films in his career and astonishingly didn't win an Academy or Golden Globe during his entire career, despite two Oscar and five Globe nominations (He did win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1970). "The Philadelphia Story" is one of his best balancing comedy and drama perfectly in a tale of socialite Katherine Hepburn's upper crust wedding ruined upon the arrival of ex-husband Cary and tabloid reporter James Stewart (who won the Oscar for Best Actor for his work). The film was one of the first films to show a couple divorce, seek out other partners only to reunite. This was a necessary ploy since the Production Code at the time forbade the depiction of extramarital affairs, and actually spawned a slew of films with similar formulas and shorelines. "The Philadelphia Story" was the second collaboration between Hepburn and Grant, who previously teamed up in 1938's "Bringing Up Baby." The catch is the baby in the title is a leopard named Baby, who is cared for by Katherine (a gift some her sibling? Amy - never get me a leopard for future reference)whom Cary gets to hang out with on the eve of his wedding. Watch "Notorious," "An Affair To Remember," "To Catch a Thief" should be watched by everyone who likes lavish, classically made films. I tend to ramble about my favourite Grant film (as well as my favourite Hitchcock film) 1959's "North By Northwest." A case of mistaken identity for Manhattan advertising executive Roger O Thornhill (Grant) who is mistaken for a government agent by a group of spies. George Kaplan, the agent he's mistaken for doesn't exist, but was made up by the government so the spies believed someone was on their tail. The government's fake agent agent has now become a real one, and Thornhill must elude the spies, the government and police officers after an incident in the classic United Nations scene. Legend has it that Hitchcock was denied access to shoot at the building so he had a camera across the street in a cab and took the footage of Grant entering the building. The crop dusting scene is one of the most famous scenes in American film, as is the iconic ending on the faces of Mount Rushmore. It has everything you'd want in a Cary Grant film, and everything you'd could want in a Hitchcock film at once. 

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Download a tribute album compiled by Filter Magazine to celebrate Descendents vocalist Milo Aukerman's 50th birthday. The album feature 13 Descendents songs covered by Mike Watt, The Bronx, Edsel, Good Riddance, Milo Greene and other! Get it HERE.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs and the rest of the NHL kick off their season tomorrow. Will the Leafs fare any better this season? There's no reason to think they will; they still have inexperienced goalies, a group of forwards who are soft in their own end and defence corps with more holes and question marks than Jodie Foster's Golden Globes speech. The Leafs have made a change or two while finalizing their roster, including shipping Matthew Lombardi to Phoenix for a pick and placing underproducing/overpaid forward Tim Connelly on waivers. It's great to see Colton Orr cracking the line up out of the shortened camp and I'm looking forward to seeing him on the ice again after playing in just five games with the Leafs last season. Leafs are in Montreal tomorrow night, 7PM, Hockey Night In Canada on CBC. The Leafs opening night roster HERE.

*** Was having some internet issues so I couldn't post this for the last couple days so the Leafs have played two games. They look rusty, but let's be fair; so has every team I've watched so far this season (what's going on in Philly?).  The Leafs won the ugly season opener in Montreal 2-1 before losing their own home opener last night against the Sabres by the same score. Nazem Kadri has been quite good, never thought I'd say that (sorry.. I kind of gave up), and has scored in each contest. The puck actually looks like its trying to find him sometimes. The Leafs visit Pittsburgh on Wednesday night. 

Other early season story lines: The old guys! Look a Jagr and Kovalev light it up (Kovalev and his new team the Panthers did get shutout by Ottawa last night). Vancouver goalies! Who's the number one guy? Blackhawks! Eleven goals in two games. They still have arguably the most snipers of any team in the league with Marian Hossa (another older guy lighting it up), Jonathan Toews and the two Patricks' (Sharp and Kane). Rangers and Flyers! Are they really this bad defensively?

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news feeds nov 5

The election down south is just a few days away and the race is too close to call. Obama and Mitt are neck and neck going down to the wire. Not that it matters, and it shouldn't sway voters, but Obama is getting way better celebrity backers. If you listen to what any celebrity who isn't schooled in such affairs, and don't take it as opinion, well, just.. good luck. I'm not saying that nothing good comes out of it though. Will Ferrell will do anything to get your vote. Jay Z has 99 problems and a Mitt ain't one. I don't live in the U.S. so I don't care all that much, but since they are right in our backyard (or front yard?) what happens down there will affect us somehow someway eventually so I have to care just a little bit. I don't know the fine print of the candidates platforms, and I couldn't make valid arguments one way or another for either candidate anymore than the candidates themselves can find a solution to the perpetually slumping American economy. I'm just saying, if you can give Bush eight years, you can give Obama the same.

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Canadians get to revel in the release of the latest polymer bank note, the $20 bill! On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada will begin circulating the new $20 bill, the most widely circulated of all bills in the country. In late 2012, the Bank of Canada issued the $100 bill as a polymer bill first, ahead of new $50 note unveiling in March. The 10$ and $5 bills will be issued in the new format by the end of 2013. There has been criticism of the new bills. They do not tear, that comes as advertised, but they do appear to melt, or fuse together, like if you have two notes in your wallet and you sit on the bus or something. Just don't roll like a hustler. There is also reports of optical lens in bank machines not picking up the new bills, dispensing money unknowingly to super stoked and potentially dishonest customers, causing major headaches for some retailers. The bottom line is it doesn't look like Monopoly money anymore. It looks like plastic Monopoly money. 

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Gross and inappropriate alert.

Want to bone Justin Beiber? Who doesn't? At long last, a Biebs sex doll is on the market. The plastic, bi-sexual (really?.. it's a doll) blowup sex doll was made by Pipedream Products and is available for purchase on Amazon, prices ranging from $20-$138. The description is the best part since you can't make this stuff up: "When he's not busy beating up paparazzi or beating off, he's up to his high-tops in hot Hollywood tail! But the Beave-ster doesn't have this effect just on women - he turns straight men gay faster than you can peel his skinny jeans off! So what are you waiting for, inflate this lil' pricks ego even more and have your very own Beaver bash!" Justin's name is actually used, it is cleverly disguised as Just-In Beaver, I'm just going to assume to avoid legal issue. Ya, so… ya. Enjoy?

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Phone photographers, at long last, Instagram is available on your desktop in the way of actual profiles. You still have to take the pictures from your phone, but others can view your photos from any device. Instagram said it will be launching profiles for all users in the next week with your (or my) address being http://instagram.com/[user name]. "We're launching Web profiles to give you a simple way to share your photos with more people and to make it easier to discover new users on the web, " the company said in a blogpost. Instagram was launched in 2010 and currently has 100 million registered users. On September 6 this year, a deal that had been in the works since April finally closed, with Facebook absorbing Instagram, and its thirteen employees for a $1 billion cash and stock deal. The program allows you to upload photos from your phone, then apply a filter to it, all while confining it to a square shape similar to the Kodak Instamatic and the classic Polaroid photo with the white border. 

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Have you lost weeks of your life to Civilization 2? If not, you might not want to read on due to the degree of nerdiness. Anyways, I played this game for hours at a time in my early teen years, on the family's first (at least fully functional) computer, a Pentium I with a whopping 75MHz clock speed. Didn't matter, the game ran, and I could stream albums with my Real Media Player. Wow, did the Real Player ever sound like crap. I listened to Offspring's "Smash" and Propagandhi's "How To Clean Everything" about a million times while playing until the early morning hours. Then I just stopped playing for whatever reason (girls), and didn't play it for probably ten years until I saw it floating around a newsgroup, so I immediately downloaded it. There have been many a sequel to Civilization II, played 'em, but for some reason CIV2 hass the perfect mix of simplicity of graphics and complexity of game play to make it my favourite. There is a gentlemen over on tumblr who has been playing the same game of Civ for 10 years. He swears that he does have a life, and has other games on the go, but always goes back to check out his game that he has played all the way until the year 3991 (the game stops keeping score/ends in 2020 if you don't land your spaceship before then). He goes by the tumblr handle Lycerius, and said his world is down to three nations, dwindling resources, and is severely polluted from all the nuclear wars. "Peace seems to be impossible. Every time a cease fire is signed, the Vikings will surprise attack me or the Americans the very next turn, often with nuclear weapons. Even when the UN forces a peace treaty. So I can only assure that peace will come only when they are wiped out. It is this that perpetuates the war ad infinitum." The war has been going on for 1700 years (in game time), and the constant nuclear bombardment has melted the worlds ice caps over and over making it impossible to farm on. Game creator Sid Meier had this to say of the gamer: "There's no way we could have tested for this. I can't say that we ever though anyone would play a game of Civ for that long. It's exciting a fan of the series would dedicate 10 years to playing one continuous game." Once he is done wiping out the wretched American and Viking civilizations he plans to rebuild the World. "My goal for the next few years is to try and end the war and thus use the engineers to clear swamps and fallout so that farming may resume. I want to rebuild the world. But I'm not sure how." 

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Bad Religion's sixteenth full length, "True North" is slated for a January 22, 2013 release through guitarist Mr. Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph Records. The pre-sale is up on the BR site and they also released a track from the album as well. "True North" has 16 tracks so fast, melodic punk rock with not one of the track eclipsing three minutes. Bad Religion's last album was 2010's "Dissent Of Man." In other Los Angeles 1980's punk band news, the Descendents have a documentary coming out chronicling the bands history. It covers the bands early surf rock days as a three piece, the bands Milo-led lineup, the break up/re-group as ALL, then the reformation of the last (and classic) Descendents lineup. The band has released six albums as the Descendents, eight as ALL, and one as Tony All (original Descendents bassist Tony Lombardo's songs with Stephan, Karl and Bill as the backing band). Here's a trailer for the documentary "Filmage: The Story Of the Descendents/ALL":

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Seminal New York indie band Texas Is the Reason is set to play at Lee's Palace in Toronto on March 8, 2013. The band reunited earlier in the year to play the Revelation Records 25th Anniversary Show apparently sparked something in them and have lined up eight shows, most on the east coast omit shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles to close out the mini-tour. The band formed after Norm Arenas left former Youth Of Today vocalist Ray Cappo's project Shelter and teamed up with former 108 drummer Chris Daly to form a group that would leave behind the macho attitude and the religious preaching (Shelter and 108 were both Hare Krishna hardcore bands) of their former projects. The band released one full length "Do You Know Who You Are" after which the were heavily courted by major labels. Tension mounted within the band and they dissolved on the eve they were supposed to sign their first major label contract. Daly went on to play in Jets To Brazil and Arenas DJ'd in Chicago for a few years. Here's a song from their first EP:

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There is still a hockey lockout on. One year ago today, Tyler Seguin sniped his first career hat trick at the ACC against the Leafs scoring three goals of irony as the man he was traded for, Phil Kessel, sat on the bench watching. Bruins 7. Leafs 0. Compared to that score, the lockout doesn't hurt so much.

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news feeds aug 24

Lance Armstrong has been long battling the US Anti-Doping agency for his alleged doping  allegations and it looks like his fight is over. Armstrong has decided to stop battling the agency saying it was a "one-sided and unfair process" after losing a court case on Monday where he was trying to put a halt to the allegations once and for all. The agency responded by saying he will get a lifetime ban as well as losing all his wins after 1998, including 7 Tour De France titles. "I have been dealing with claims that I have cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. Over the past three years, I have been subjected to a two year federal criminal investigation followed by Travis Tygart's unconstitutional witch hunt. The toll this has taken on my family, and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today - finished with this nonsense," Armstrong said. The USADA has accused Lance the Pants of not only using but trafficking, giving them to others and covering up his own drug violations. It has never been proved whether he did or didn't use performance enhancing drugs, and has passed 500-600 tests in his career. One of his former coaches noted that Lance has never backed down from any fight, including his well publicized battle with testicular cancer, so for Lance to throw in the towel "underlines what an unjust process this has been."

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Best part about 3D movies? The cool glasses right? Or is it the thin storyline to make rooms for tons of 3D effects? While we may never get solid stories with 3D blockbusters, researchers in South Korea have developed a way to view 3D films without any additional hardware. So as it works now, 3D has two projectors running a film in sync with the one running with light polarized left to right and the other up to down, so when we take our glasses off everything looks blurry, since the images are basically the same, omit some light composition, but just slightly offset from one another. It is very expensive to do this, since you have to have two projectors, have the two reels of the film, and make it sync, not to mention hand out 100s of disposable glasses. The new process has a way to go… It basically puts a filter right after the projectors lens that polarizes the light, but unfortunately, the image resolution is fairly low.  "This technology is still in its infancy, but it's a new step that was hidden for a long time, " says physicist John Koshell. Remember the cardboard 3D glasses one of Biff's henchmen wore in Back To the Future? Bring those back!

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Alright, all you smart phone users/McDonald's fans (McDonalds regulars use smart phones?), it's all going down! Thirty McDonalds restaurants in France have been testing out a new smartphone payment system, similar to the ones used at many major retailers including Starbucks, 7-11 and Target. If the company is pleased with the results, expect the concept to engulf all 33,500 other locations the world over. You just walk in, order, they scan your phone (take payments from PayPal), and you get ushered over to a separate line to pick up you food. The 'little square' called "Square" was created by one of the founders of Twitter, which I did not know, is used for most phone scan payments but PayPal has been trying to stay relevant in the online payment game, which they basically invented, by working with McDonalds, not to mention they have recently hooked up with home reno behemoth Home Depot. 

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Kids allowance these days runs you $15 bucks a week, made payable from the age of 8 on. That at least the averages that have been reported in a recent survey. Kids tend to get a slightly bigger allowance when they get older (older being 15-16 not 28-29), but even at the average of $15, kids are making about $780 a year. Not mention, without any bills, from food to phone, kids still don't save, with fewer than 1% of those surveyed saying their child actually saved any money. Parents also cover costs like cell phones, music downloads, and sports costs. So after covering all these incidental costs, it is conceivable, in some homes at least, that kids have more disposable income that their parents do sometimes… and to put it in perspective a kid could buy an iPad and an iPod touch with their years "earnings." I'm going to an inflation calculator to see if my $5 allowance in the 1990s matches up. Nope, I made $8.23 per week or $427.96 annually. It did say good grades were a factor. Shucks.

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This isn't really news. Anyways, I saw Microsoft was revamping their logo, going for that retro-chic look in hopes of it making them relevant again after the launch of a redesigned Windows 8 and their Surface tablet computer (which looks great.. I posted a story when it was first announced CLICK HERE). I thought I'd put a couple other official logos up and they are pretty hilarious or terrible. Depends. The original logo was a "futuristic" looking text from the 70s, then they moved onto the glam metal fonted logo, and their "blibbet" logo with three concentric circles making up the first O in Microsoft was just ok, but apparently people had a campaign "Save the Blibbet" around the offices, not to mention the Microsoft cafeteria had a Blibbet Burger. 

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And they say the Brits are boring! I don't know anyone who wouldn't want to party with Prince Harry after his £30,000 ($47,442 USD) Vegas weekend. Harry and two of his mates rented a suite with three master bedrooms, private elevator, butler service, massage room, steam shower, 72" TV, gym and a wet bar (not to mention the infamous pool table and soundproofed walls for any royal shenanigans that took place). Harry arrived, checked in in a private lobby and went straight to the SW Steakhouse within the Encore Wynn resort, spending thousands of pounds of bottles on wine. After dinner, they slide over to Surrender night club, built around an outdoor pool, where him and his boys drank Jagerbombs and beers all night with bikini clad go-go dancers swinging on stripper poles. Mellow Friday night. Saturday, they rented out a VIP bungalow at the MGM Grand for one of its Wet Republic pool parties, before Sundays weekend cap of booze by the pool before whisking off to XS night club. The weekends tab was covered by Steve Wynn, billionaire owner of the hotel, who said that no one with the royal party is to pay for anything. This could be the first king to have a nude/semi-picture of himself on the internet, not that I know the complete history of the monarchy.

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Not to fully expose my love for the Back To the Future movies but I have to reference them again.. Back To the Future 2 actually. Remember when Marty saw Doc disappear in the DeLorean after it was struck by lightning and got send to 1885 then Joe Flaherty shows up as an employee from Western Union with a package that had been in their possession since 1885. I like that scene. Anyways, there is a 100 year old package in Norway with instructions not to be opened until 2012. It has been speculated that there is historical documents, some kind of small treasure. It is set to be open today, August 26, 2012. The package has been in small town Norway since August 1912, given to the local mayor by a politician, Johan Nygard, who said that the package would "benefit and delight future generations." Is it going to be a huge joke that will be having Nygard laughing from his grave? We will see. There is something hopelessly romantic about leaving something for people in the future, a message in a bottle sort of quality, but many capsules have often been a mixed bag, from finding nothing, to the contents improperly store and they deteriorate over time. My favourite is still Rivera's opening of the Al Capone vault found beneath the Lexington Hotel in Chicago in 1986. (You can check a previous story, with video, I did on the Capone vault HERE).

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A novelty condom company in New York City have put out some condoms with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's face on the packaging. Mitt's rubber comes with the tagline "Great For Any Position" while Obama's read "Won't Break As Easily As His Promises" and "Ultimate Stimulus Package for Hard Times." Apparently, company founder Ben Sherman (apparently a side business to nice suits and sweaters), has been producing presidential condoms since the last election with Obama's 08 condom reading "Use Good Judgement," based on Obama's mantra that sound judgement was more important than experience, while his opponent John McCain's condom read "Old, but not expired." Obama's domes are outselling Romney's by a 7% margin.

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Friday song. Elliot's "Calm Americans"

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news feeds june 10

Well duh. Obama held a press conference to declare the the American economy "is not doing fine." While he said the private sector was doing good, where they were seeing weakness "have to do with state and local government, oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past…" Yada yada. Does it really matter? Holding a press conference to declare an obvious point seems pretty redundant, and of course Mitt Romney wasted no time commenting on the president's statement by asking if the president was "really that out of touch." Sounds like he's pretty in touch, since the economy is basically a nightmare. But you know, another six months of spending on their respective campaigns leading up to the election will help. 

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Can't make this up. Here's ten uses for a tampon in the wild (the Swiss Army Tampon) by artofmanliness.com. I'll just list them since they are all awesome and no jokes are required, because who are we kidding, this story is a walking punchline. #1: Medical Bandage. A tampon is perfect bandage because they are well packaged in waterproof sleeves and by design are ultra absorbent. Accounts of this use for the hygiene product dates back to World War 1. #2: Water Filter. It is able to filter out sediments and floating particles, but it probably won't knock out "biological, chemical or heavy metal threats." Cool. #3: Fire tinder. Cotton burns like wild fire, and when the dry cotton fibres of a tampon are pulled apart and hit with the slightest spark it will burn beautifully. Apparently adding chapstick, or vasoline to the cotton you have an even better firestarter. Ok! Next #4: Straw filter. This looks like a large marijuana 'bat' shaped cigarette, but you can filter water from a puddle with it. You won't be stoned, but you won't be thirsty either. #5: "Wick for improvised candle." Alright this gets a little "Survivor Man" but apparently you can make a candle out of animal fat and fresh "mussel shell" (Alright then). I knew the strings on the end of those things had another use. #6: Cordage. Ummm "The string attached to a tampon is a cotton twisted cord typically made up of several 4-6" pieces of twine. Though it's not much, it is useable cordage." So in the example of this use on the website, they have a trap set up to catch you dinner. I'm a vegetarian so unless is can gather a crop of broccoli, they may be useless. And it's not enough to hang yourself. Just an FYI. #7: Blow Dart Fetching. Whatever that means. Apparently tho, the blow gun has been around for thousands of years, and the tampon cotton can make a perfect feather (or "fletching") for the end of your dart for a blow gun. "8: Blow Tube. Ya, so instead of sucking in like #4, you blow out, usually to revive coals from the previous evening. Not too sure what the difference is from just blowing on the coals and blowing on the coals through a tampon, but apparently there is. #9: Waterproof Match & Fire Tinder Case. When you are in a damp, wet situation, in the woods, with a tampon you can keep your fire starting tools like matches and tinder dry by using the waterproof packaging. Fold it over, use the tampon string to tie it up! And #10: Fishing Bobber. "Make the bobber with the tampon package/sleeve by folding over and tying off the top to create a little bubble that will float you bait." You for once don't have to feel bad about combining the terms "fish" and "tampon" in the same sentence. Cheap joke, I know. Next time you are out buying your water purification tablets and SPAM for your survival kit, will you include a box of tampons?

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Are you sick of the food prices in Toronto or wherever you are? Take a look-see at what's going on in Nunavet right now. Or at least it has been brought to our attention now. Thousands of Inuit have been pictures of food items along with their price tags to show how ridiculous it is to get food in Canada's newest territory. A case of ginger ale will run you $82, while a head of cabbage could run you $20. Over 10,000 people have joined the Facebook site called "Feed My Family" which accounts for over a third of Nunavut's population. They also are among Canada's poorest with half of the adults in the territory make under 20,000 per year, and a three person family, a mother, father and child spends up to 500-600 per week on groceries. Pretty weak.

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Tommy Chong is fighting prostate cancer. The 74 year old stoner claims he started noticing the symptoms while he was in jail for selling drug paraphernalia eight years ago, and since he noticed the symptoms when he was clean then "it's not because of the cannabis". In fact, he now used pot as a cure. Chong no longer smokes marijuana but he ingests hemp oil in the evenings. "I'm taking it as a medicine," he said noting "So legalizing marijuana means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint and not get arrested." Tommy Chong and his partner Cheech Marin released several comedy albums in the 70s before hitting the big screen in 1978's "Up In Smoke", the first in several adventures of the pair. After the duo broke up, Chong found a regular gig as Leo from seasons 2-8 of Fox's That's 70's Show. Listen to Cheech & Chong's "Earache In My Eye" below!

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After getting a bum deal in a botched overtime call the other night, the Toronto Marlies bowed out of the Calder Cup final without a whimper, losing 6-1 to the Norfolk Admirals. It actually was  a pretty close game until the third period, but Norfolk proved too dominating, tough and determined to be denied the championship in the minimum four games. With the Marlies trailing 3-1 in the third, Toronto had a power play with just over nine minutes left and Marlies coach Dallas Eakins pulled goalie Ben Scrivens for a 6-4 advantage.. it was a gamble, and Norfolk tucked in an empty netter to go up 4-1. At that point all the cards had been laid on the table and Norfolk tacked on a couple late ones to pad the score. It is Norfolk's first AHL championship in their 12 year history. The NHL playoffs got a lot more interesting after the Devils beat the Kings in their game four matchup in Jersey Saturday night. All the pressure is now on Los Angeles with game 6 slated for Monday night. LA will be in deep trouble if they lose at home in a clinching game for a second time.

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LOSING! Could Charlie Sheen get any cooler? Atfer taking in some game four action in Los Angeles, the rockstar from Mars was denied re-entry into the Staples Centre after sliding outside of a smoke. So, what do the Devils do? They tweet to Charlie Sheen: "We'll treat you w/courtesy & common sense @CharlieSheen come to the game tomorrow we have a great staff & a smoking gallery." Still no word weather Charlie took in tonight's game in Newark since I'm writing this at 7am and he's probably still out. WINNING!

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